The answer to the question that keeps getting asked.
Why do people get so frustrated when others announce the opportunities on this forum?
Well, it's simple. People need the money. I'm a prime example. Things fell apart for me, and I thankfully had this platform to fall back on. The income obtained here helped me, massively, in ways I can't properly convey. I've worked my ass off over the years, but life is messy, and sometimes a messy life causes people to struggle, even when they do everything right. Because of this, we turn to resources that are sometimes our last resort. It's not that we rely fully on this platform for income, it's that for some periods of our lives, we need anything we can get, just to survive in a broken world. It's hard at times when a temporary reliable income source disappears. We try to justify it, we theorize about what could be happening that causes a lapse in income. We get frustrated seeing other make money that may be extra spending money to them, but know that income could be the difference between us having food for a night or not. It's not that we don't want others to share in the wealth, it's that we know how bad our lives will get without the income. This, unfortunately, can create bitterness. when we see an income stream that's a lifeline disappear on us, we want to point fingers. don't get me wrong, we know this isn't a consistent, reliable gig. But when it's the only thing we have, we're gonna defend it, fiercely, because we have no other choice. I got screwed with my last job, and I have another job lined up, but bills don't care about circumstances, they care about money. Most of the time, they're not willing to wait, they don't care why we need time to come up with the money, they just care about the money they don't receive. whether it's the fault of the influx of new participants of not, seeing a well of money suddenly get shared with others that didn't put in the effort to "deserve' a spot at the pool can be frustrating. For those of us that's been on the platform for years, it can be frustrating to share the pot with brand new people that didn't put in the work to make prolific a platform that can afford to be what it is now. New users didn't work through the droughts like we did. It's a gig platform, without actual employees. But when you work for years for someone, then see them hire countless employees that suddenly take the income away from people that spent years building up a platform through their time, it can be frustrating. Not because the new employees did anything wrong, but because the platform we helped to build essentially spit in our faces and said that they don't care about the work we put in, that made a ceo millions of dollars, they're all for dropping our income for new users, just for the sake of them being new. The frustration comes from people feeling like their time and effort gets ignored, isn't worth anything. That's not an unjustified feeling, anyone sending time and effort over years would feel the same way. The toxicity on this thread is real, but it's not entirely unjustified, it's just human nature. I think that deep down, people are genuinely happy that others can make money, and have a chance to build a bridge when needed, when no other options are available. we just wish it didn't come at the cost to our own income, because some of us may need it just as badly as others, and we put in the work to earn this income, through years of plowing through low income studies, through years of being here so the platform could be successful.
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. But I feel like this is an accurate assessment of the current situation. I don't normally make posts, ever. But maybe this will help the new users understand why we're so furiously defensive of what we have, what we've spent years working for.